On 26 and 27 October, the PhD programme in Educational Sciences for Teacher Education at the Faculty of Education and International Studies (LUI) is hosting PhD Days at OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University. This is done in collaboration with the PhD programme in Pedagogical Resources and Learning Processes in Kindergarten and School, USN – University of South-Eastern Norway.
The PhD Days is both an academic and social event. We aim to bring together all PhD candidates of these two programmes with the purpose of discussing key challenges in educational research with leading scholars and experts in the field, and also socializing and sharing experiences across PhD programmes.
Distinguished researchers from different areas of educational research and experts in methodology are invited to give keynote lectures and to participate in workshops and roundtable discussions. Topics include key challenges in educational research, methodology and methods, open science, research ethics, artificial intelligence in research, managing research processes, and writing and publishing practices.
Registration
Please register via the registration link on this page.
The event itself is free. Participants pay for their own travel expenses, and those who wish to spend the night in Oslo, must book their own accommodations.
Programme
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Day 1: Thursday 26 October
The programme might be subject to minor changes.
- 9.00-9.30: Registration, serving of coffee and tea
- 9.30-9.45: Welcome
- 9.45-10.45: Keynote 1: Doing educational research within the policy–research–practice nexus: possibilities and challenges, Sølvi Mausethagen
- 10.45-11.30: Cross-institutional conversations: PhD candidates working in similar fields across PhD programmes meet over coffee or tea
- 11.30-12.30: Keynote 2: Thematic analysis: The answer to your analytic hopes, dreams, or nightmares?, Virginia Braun (auckland.ac.nz)
- 12.30-13.30: Lunch
- 13.30-15.30: Parallel Workshops A-D:
- A: Managing mess: dealing with the unexpected in a research project, Yvette Solomon (mmu.ac.uk)
- B: AI as a research companion: Opportunities, challenges, and implications, Mari Serine Kannelønning and Hege Kristin Ringnes
- C: Collecting and analysing qualitative data, Constantinos Xenofontos
- D: Beating writer’s block and staying inspired, Tom Muir
- 15.30-16.00: Serving of light refreshments
- 16.00-17.00: Roundtable: Maintaining work-life balance during a PhD: A conversation between current and past PhD candidates. Convenor: Kirsti Marie Jegstad
- 17.15: Dinner
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Day 2: Friday 27 October
- 9.00- 9.30: Registration, serving of coffee and tea
- 9.30- 9.45: Welcome
- 9.45-11.00: Keynote 1: Open science and impact: Lessons learned from DigiGen an EU Horizon 2020 project, Halla Holmarsdottir & Greta Björk Gudmundsdottir (uio.no)
- 11.00-11.30: Coffee break
- 11.30-12.30: Keynote 2: Research ethics: An integral part of research, Monica Roland (ntnu.edu)
- 12.30-13.30: Lunch
- 13.30-15.30: Parallel Workshops A-C:
- A: Writing the narrative (“kappe”) in an article-based dissertation, Lynn P. Nygaard (prio.org) & Kristin Solli
- B: Privacy and data protection in educational research, Nina Hestnes
- C: Eclectic use of theory: Strategies for combining different theories in your thesis, Cecilie Pedersen Dalland
- 15.30-16.00: Serving of light refreshments
- 16.00-16.45: Roundtable: Meet the editors: Advice and strategies for writing for publication
- Tove Lafton (editorial board, Nordic Early Childhood Educational Research)
- Wilfried Admiraal (editorial board, Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning and Instruction, Educational Psychology)
- Ardis Storm-Mathiesen (editorial board, Norwegian Journal of Sociology and editor of several anthologies)
- Anders Granås Kjøstvedt (editor of special issue in Journal of Humanities and Social Science Education)
- 16.45-17.00: Summing up and evaluations
Contact information
For questions regarding registration/programme, please contact Chiara Pecl.
